After booting from USB devices (like after installation from LIVE-CD from USB-Stick), Acer Aspire One A110 and A150 often hangs and needs a bios update, to remove black screen of death.
Download actual bios from Acer website. Unzip it, copy the content of the dos-folder to the root of a FAT16 or FAT32 formatted usb-stick. Now you have a flashit.exe and a ****.fd. It's good to use a usb-stick with activity-le, to see, if somethings happens.
Make a copy of flashit.exe and name it flash.exe - one of them is called by the pre-bios-flasher later. Then you have to rename ****.fd to ZG5IA32.fd.
Power of the netbook, make shure you inserted battery pack and ac-plug - both is needed. Insert usb-stick in netbook.
Then hold FN and ESC-key simultaniously and power on - the power-button will now blink to show you, that the pre-bios-flasher is active. Release FN-ESC and press the power button again - now it will check your usb-stick and start updating the netbook. If that happens, the usb-stick will blink for some time. Don't do anything with your netbook at this time - wait for reboot, now bios should boot regulary.
If your netbook does not reboot after, let's say 5 minutes and usb-stick is not blinking any more, something went wrong with the bios update.
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